The Lay Folks' Catechism, or the English and Latin versions of Archbishop Thoresby's Instruction for the People Together with a Wycliffite adaptation of the same, and the corresponding canons of the council of Lambeth. With introduction, notes, glossary, and index, by the late Thomas Frederick Simmons ... and Henry Edward Nolloth |
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 | The Lay Folks' Catechism, or the English and Latin versions of Archbishop Thoresby's Instruction for the People |  |
The secunde sacrament ys confermynge
þat þe byschop ȝyuyþ to hem þat ar baptyȝid
in þe whyche he ȝeuyþ þorwȝ his power to hym þat takys hyt
be þe grace and þe gyftis of þe holy gost
þat is of godis graunt to make hem more stalworþ þan þey were be-fore.
to withstonde þe fende and alle dedly synnys.
That sacrament owys noon to do. but þe byschop alone.
þat haþ þe stat and þe stede of cristys apostyl.
þat þe byschop ȝyuyþ to hem þat ar baptyȝid
in þe whyche he ȝeuyþ þorwȝ his power to hym þat takys hyt
be þe grace and þe gyftis of þe holy gost
þat is of godis graunt to make hem more stalworþ þan þey were be-fore.
to withstonde þe fende and alle dedly synnys.
That sacrament owys noon to do. but þe byschop alone.
þat haþ þe stat and þe stede of cristys apostyl.
| The Lay Folks' Catechism, or the English and Latin versions of Archbishop Thoresby's Instruction for the People | |